DEAR ALL
IT IS A SAD MESSAGE. MOHAMMAD MOBIN'S DEATH IS BIG LOSS. PLEASE PAY MY
CONDOLENSES TO THEFAMILY. INDIAN DISABILITY SECTOR IS VERY SAD ABOUT SAD
DEMISE OF MOBIN BHAI. ALLAH GIVE HIM PLACE IN JANNAH. AAMEEN
REGARDS
JAVED
PLEASE TELL ABOUT CAUSE OF DEATH
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:01 PM, NDF Pakistan <
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> Dears All, Mr. Mobin disability leader in Pakistan, Ex-President Disabled
> Peoples International (DPI) Pakistan also died in last week in Karachi. He
> was energetic & advocate of disability rights in Pakistan. He will be
> remembered in Disability circle at national & International level. He was
> icon of disability.
>
> Regards
>
> Abid Lashari
> CEO
> NDF Pakistan
> Nawabshah, District Shaheed Benazir Abad
> PH & Fax. +92-244366107, +92-3003211876
> [log in to unmask], www.ndfpakistan.org
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 21/6/17, Allan Sutherland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [SDS Members] Mr. Kerith Armstrong: URGENT ARCHIVE SAVING
> REQUEST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Wednesday, 21 June, 2017, 2:51 PM
>
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>
> I was very sorry to hear of Keith’s death. Keith
> was the first person
> to accept me as a disabled person, at the workshop described
> in the final
> chapter of ‘Disabled We Stand’, which led to the
> Liberation Network of Disabled
> People.
>
> Keith was an important figure in the Liberation
> Network. Saving his
> papers should be seen as important by anyone interested in
> preserving or
> archiving the early history of the disabled people’s
> movement in the UK.
>
> Keith took up photography in his later years. If
> these pictures still
> survive they are likely to provide a lot of images of the
> activities of such
> organisations as DAN and the Campaign for Accessible
> Transport.I have informed
> NDACA, the National Disability Collection and Archive, but
> much of Keith’s
> material is likely to have greater bearing on political
> struggles rather than
> the arts.
>
>
>
>
> Best
>
> wishes
>
> Allan
>
>
> Allan
>
> Sutherland
>
> 'Neglected Voices', four cycles of
> transcription
> poems by Allan Sutherland, based on interviews with disabled
> people.
> http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/Neglected-Voices
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Devva
> Kasnitz
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:17 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Subject: FW: [SDS Members] Mr. Kerith Armstrong:
> URGENT ARCHIVE
> SAVING REQUEST
>
>
>
> This request may interest
> historians plus!
>
>
> Devva
> Kasnitz, PhD
> Executive
> Director
> Society for
> Disability Studies
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
> From: Tom Gill
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 5:13
> PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Mr. Kerith
> Armstrong
>
>
>
> Dear SDS
> team,
>
>
>
>
> Please
> forgive me for writing to you out of the blue. I am an old
> friend of Keith
> Armstrong, who recently died in London aged about 60.
>
>
>
>
>
> Keith
> contracted polio in his infancy and spent his life in a
> wheelchair. He was a
> tireless campaigner for the rights of people with
> disabilities, with a special
> interest in mobility issues. For many years he served as an
> advisor to local
> authorities in London on transport accessibility. He wrote
> many papers on
> disability/transportation issues, which you can easily check
> by looking for his
> name at academia.edu.
>
>
>
>
> https://independent.academia.edu/KeithArmstrong
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Unfortunately Keith seems to have made no preparations at
> all for his death, and
> was estranged from his brother and sister, so that a few of
> his friends are left
> to sort out his estate, which mostly consists of the
> contents of a Council flat
> in Euston. The flat is crammed with papers, many of them
> leaflets and pamphlets
> on disability issues, along with Keith's voluminous
> correspondence with
> government bodies etc. on disability matters.
>
>
>
>
> We have finally
> arranged a funeral for Keith on June 29, after which the
> flat will be returned
> to the GLC (Greater London Council). Presumably anything
> left in the flat will
> be destroyed. I am writing to you on the off-chance that
> somebody at SDS might
> be interested in viewing the contents of the flat before
> they are destroyed, and
> perhaps taking some of the more interesting
> materials.
>
>
>
>
> I would be most
> grateful if you could circulate this message to the network
> of researchers
> associated with SDS. I feel sure some of them must have come
> across Keith's work
> and may perhaps be interested in viewing the
> papers.
>
>
>
>
> Just to be
> clear, we do not want any money. We just hope that some of
> Keith's legacy may be
> preserved before it disappears forever.
>
>
>
>
> Please let me
> know when you receive this message. Please also advise me of
> any other places I
> should write to regarding this matter.
>
>
>
>
> I may also be
> contacted by phone in the U.K. at +44
> (0)772-101-6225.
>
>
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
>
> Tom
> Gill
>
> Professor of Social
> Anthropology
>
> Meiji Gakuin
> University
>
> Japan
>
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